Stair-carpet fastener



(No Model.) i

A. B. KOPLIN.

STAIR CARPET PASTBNER.

No. 557,585. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

Nrrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM B. KOPLIN, OF HELLERTO'WN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- llALF TO AARON HOSTETTER, OF HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAlR-CARPET FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,586, dated April 7, 1896.

Application lecl July 19,1895. Serial No. 556,535. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM B. KorLiN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hellertovm, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Stair-Carpet Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to au improvement in stair-carpet fasteners, and is designed to be used either independently of or in connection with a stair-rod for holding a stair-carpet snugly in place.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient fastening device for stair-carpets which may be manipulated with ease, which may be used either with or without rods for holding the carpet in place, which will not injure the carpet, which may be clamped rmly in position without the aid of screws, and which maybe moved with facility when required.

In order to accomplish the objects above enumerated, the invention consists in a staircarpet fastener embodying certain novel features and details of construction whereby advantages in point of simplicity, ease of manipulation, and efficiency are attained, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and nally embodied in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a detail perspective view of an improved stair-carpet fastener constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the manner in which the improved fastening device is applied in practice, showing the same used independently and also in connection with a stair-rod.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the improved stair-carpet fastener contemplated in this invention is preferably formed from cast metal, although it will be apparent from the ensuing description that the same may be stamped or otherwise formed from sheet metal if desired.

The fastener is substantially L shaped in cross-section, being formed with a vertical portion or main body l and with a horizontal base or forwardly-extending portion 2 formed integrally therewith. The forward face of the vertical or upright portion l, as well as the upper face of the horizontal base portion 2, maybe formed or have represented thereon any desired ornamental design, and the rear face of the vertical or upright portion may or may not be provided with a recess 3, adapted, when the fastener is secured in place, to receive the end of a stair-rod of any ordinary description.

4 designates a pointed barb or prong, which is preferably formed integrally with the fastener, the same being arranged at the inner end of the horizontal base portion and beneath the vertical or upright portion and extending downwardly, adapting it to engage and penetrate the carpet and the tread portion of a step. The vertical or upright portion lis formed at or near its upper end with a perforation 5, through which a nail may be driven into a stair-riser for preventing upward movement of the fastener. This perforation is partially surrounded upon the front face of the vertical or upright portion l by two substantially semicircular ribs or projections 6, which, when the nail referred to is driven through said perforation, receive the head thereof and limit its inward progress. Suiiicient space is left between said ribs or projections for enabling an instrument or tool, such as a pair of pliers, to pass between the same for engaging the head of the nail and withdrawing the latter.

In operation the improved fastener described is pressed against the stair-carpet overlying the riser, and while it is pressed rrnly inward it is at the same time thrust downward, the horizontal base portion thereof being struck by a hammer for causing the prong or barb et to pass through the carpet and penetrate the tread of the step, a nail being thereafter driven through the perforation 5, in the manner described above, for holding the fastening device against upward displacement. Two of these fasteners are preferably employed for each step, one at or near the opposite side edges of the strip of carpet.

lf so desired, a stair-rod of any preferred description, such as is indicated at 7, may be IOO used in connection with a pair of these fasteners, the ends of said rod being passed behind the vertical portions thereof and into the recesses 3 above described.

From the foregoing` description it Will be seen that a very simple, inexpensive, and efficient stair-carpetfasteneris obtained, which may be secured in place Without the use of screws, Which may be used independently of or in connection with stairerods, which may be quickly applied, and which may be removed With equal facility.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. A carpet-fastening device, comprising a body portion having a perforation for the securing device, a divided rib or lian ge partially surrounding said perforation for facilitating the extraction of the securing device, a base portion substantially at right angles to the body portion, and a depending barb projecting from the base port-ion, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A carpet-fastening device comprising a vertical or upright portion formed with a perforation for the reception of a securing device, a forwardly-projecting divided rib or flan ge partially surrounding said perforation and facilitating the extraction of the securing device, a horizontallyextending base portion projecting substantially at right angles to the upright portion, and apointed barb or prong disposed beneath and projecting downwardly from said base portion and in alinement with the vertical portion, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

A. B. KOPLIN. 1Witnesses:

A. J. HARRIS, E. D. SHoDU. 

